Dr Cesar Parra is a human who truly loves horses; he is a professional dressage rider and trainer who has competed in events around the world. He prides his success on being his ability to connect with horses and understand what makes them tick, which allows him to make them responsive to his training techniques so that he can unleash their full physical potential. Dr Cesar Parra deals only with domesticated horses, of course, but he is sensitive to the current problem facing the world of horses.

The United States is currently home to over 33,000 wild horses. That would seem like a good thing to most people, especially to little girls holding out on their dream to capture a pony, but they are overgrazing range land, which will eventually lead to their demise. Because of this, the United States government has a mandate to keep their wild horse population under 23,000. When animals such as deer or wild pigs overpopulate an area the government can control numbers by allowing hunters more freedom to hunt them. However, in the United States there is a taboo surrounding the killing of horses, not to mention the eating of horses. Another option for the government is to allow private individuals to own these horses, yet this is not a feasible solution because there are not enough people who have enough space or resources to care for a horse to make a dent in the wild population. The solution that the government has decided upon is to transport these wild horses to ranches owned by wealthy individuals. This is, however, not a cheap solution; the government spent $74 million on this operation in 2012 and is expected to spend over $1.1 billion by 2030. All of this, of course, is on the expense sheet of taxpayers. At this time, there are around 45,000 wild horses now living on private ranches.

If the course of action seems complicated now, we will do well to examine the fate of Australia, a country that has over 400,000 wild horses. It has become so bad in Australia that the government is contemplating whether or not to shoot tens of thousands of them. The point, says Dr Cesar Parra, is we need to take our own overpopulation issue very seriously now as to avoid being faced with a much harder decision in the future. A course of action that Dr Cesar Parra has extended is to dump seeds across the range lands that these wild horses feed on, so that overgrazing no longer becomes an issue. He does not see a large horse population as a problem. To the contrary, there are many people who would probably enjoy a lot of horses in America, says Dr Cesar Parra. Besides, there are not many images more synonymous with the American as the Bronco, an animal that helped Americans expand across the continent. Horses do not pose a threat to safety. They also have a relatively slow reproductive process and only give birth to one baby at a time. The vast amount of money we are spending on transporting horses across the country could be better spent, says Dr Cesar Parra.

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